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Bloomberg Calls Out Mormon-owned Website

LDS Church-owned KSL.com is again taking heat for its Top Gun status in unregulated gun sales. --- An investigative report prepared by the New York City Mayor's Office in December 2011 showed that KSL.com was third in the nation in active gun listings, only behind portals that specialize in gun sales such as Gunlistings.org and Armslist.com.

Locally, KSL.com's laissez-faire gun-sales policies came into prominence in spring of 2011, when both the Trib and Deseret News ran stories about KSL's gun-sales niche, hinting that KSL.com was considering making changes. But once the uproar died down, KSL.com essentially maintained the course.

A video on Mayor Bloomberg's site highlights conversations with undercover
agents posing as gun buyers. Gun buyers ask if they need to be able to
pass a background check, because they probably couldn't pass one. An
Orem gun seller glosses over the question and proceeds to make arrangements for the sale.